Vera Brittain and the First World War by Mark Bostridge

Author:Mark Bostridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

By early 1931, after nursing the new baby for six months, Vera was writing Testament of Youth almost every day, in addition to contributing a regular column to the periodical, The Nation. Throughout the next two years she would continue to work in earnest on the book. Progress was sometimes halted by household crises, childcare problems, or by a sense of general discouragement – that the book was too long and that interest in books about the war would have long since dissipated by the time she had finished it. Despite the advantage she enjoyed of considerable paid help with the children, Vera often felt overwhelmed by her responsibility for them, especially when they fell ill, feelings exacerbated by the fact that, during George Catlin’s long absences from home while teaching in America, she was effectively a single parent. ‘My “Testament of Youth”,’ she wrote with some exasperation to Winifred, in August 1931, ‘if only … I get the time to do it properly, might be a great book. It is boiling in my mind and I shall become hysterical if I am prevented from getting down to it [for] very much longer … if I am to continue sane I must have … a) a rest from the children & the house and b) freedom & suitable circumstances to continue my book’.

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